Horseshoe



(No Model.)

F. M. HARTMAN.

HURSESHOE. No. 285,261. Patented Sept. 18, 1888.

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' ERANoIs M. HAETMAN, OE MARATHON, OHIO.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,261, dated September `18, 1883.

Application filed April 28, 1883. (No model.)

Horseshoes, of which the'followingis a speciiicati'on.

'Ihe device is especially designed for use on hoof-bound horses.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents, by perspective view, a horseshoe embodying my invention, and a tool by which the shoe can be contracted. Fig. 2 represents the expanding-clip detached.

The horseshoe proper is made to consist of two portions, A A, whose chamfered and overlapping ends a are hinged to one another by a panding-clip C and being riveted at its ends,

secures all of these three members permanenti together.

The clip (l is composed of steel and has a 4spring-flange, c, or lunette-formed spring,

which, pressing against the inner edges of the shoe, as shown in Fig. 1, tends, when free so to do, to spread the shoe. An opposite flange, c', extending upwardly in front of the shoe, operates as an abutment y,to the flange c and takes the strain Off of the pivot B. This flange c may also servev as a guard-clip to the front of the hoof.

Before applying the shoe to the horses hoof its heel ends are drawn or pressed toward one another by means of a clamp, which I reserve the-right to claim in another application, a-nd which is constructed as follows:

D is a yoke, which has tapped within it a hand-screw, E, whose inner end bears against a jaw, F, adapted to slide upon the said yoke, and whose outer end has a handle, e. Hooks df, that extend upward and inward from the yoke D and the jaw F, respectively, serve to prevent the clamp dropping away from the shoe before the release of the clamp by the operator. The clamp being engaged, in the man` ner shown in Fig. l, about the sh oe-heels, the screw E is advanced until the desired contraction of the rear portion of the shoe is secured, and` the shoe, with the clamp still attach ed and while thus contracted, is nailed fast to the hoof. The screw E being then relaxed, permits the removal of the clamp, which removal in turn resigns the shoe to the expanding action of the spring c, whose constantlyexerted force both opposes and reverses the natural tendency to contraction of a hoof-bound hoof.

I claim as new and of my invention- A horseshoe composed of two portions, A A', lapped and jointed at the toe part, in combination with the attached expander C, as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

FRANCIS M. HARTMAN.

Attest:

GEORGE H. KNIGHT, GARY XV. HARTMAN. 

